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1Department of Forensic Science & Drug Monitoring, King's College London, 150 Stamford Street, London, SE1 9NH, UK. bryan.turner@kcl.ac.uk
Experimental & Applied Acarology
|June 24, 2009
Abstract:
Insects are used in a variety of ways in forensic science and the developing area of forensic acarology may have a similar range of potential. This short account summarises the main ways in which entomology currently contributes to forensic science and discusses to what extent acarology might also contribute in these areas.

